Mmm...but the wider implication is that if Cumberbatch is not voicing the Necromancer after all, then he was presumably cast because of his appearance, not because he is a well-known mo-cap artist.
So we it seems we may well get to see at least a wraith-like Necromancer with a very familiar face, if not a more solid presence...
ETA: mind you, in this interview published today, he is still reported as voicing two roles in The Hobbit...
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Thanks, Lali - and yeah, Thranduil's lieutenant is pretty fit...
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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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Lalaith wrote:I thought so, too. I like the Silven Warrior as well.
I am also having a hard time picturing the one guy as an orc. He definitely looks Elven to me.
Maybe he plays both. A mask for the orc, and all.
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Well, vaguely...but the film makers to be deliberately drawing parallels between the two "Kings in exile", don't they?
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To me they look totally different from each other. The expressions on their face show completely different emotions.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
Uhm...I wasn't saying that they actually resembled each other!
I was just pointing out that the publicity dept set the two characters up in a similar pose, presumably to hammer home the point that there is a "connection" between their character both being "kings without a kingdom" - ie, Thorin is the Aragorn of The Hobbit
....or perhaps it is simply just because they are both hawt...
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
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"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
~Diana Cortes
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
Elentári wrote:Uhm...I wasn't saying that they actually resembled each other!
I was just pointing out that the publicity dept set the two characters up in a similar pose, presumably to hammer home the point that there is a "connection" between their character both being "kings without a kingdom" - ie, Thorin is the Aragorn of The Hobbit
....or perhaps it is simply just because they are both hawt...
Right. That's what I meant--the pictures bear a resemblance to each other, not the guys themselves.
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He definitely looks Elven to me.
